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7:37 AM ET, November 12, 2020

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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
This Election Result Won't Be Overturned  —  Recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands.  —  It has been an eventful, unsettling year: A deadly virus struck without warning and claimed almost a quarter-million American lives; a lockdown demolished personal routines …
New York Times:
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff  —  Mr. Klain, who first worked for President-elect Joe Biden in 1989, has been a sharp critic of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus.  —  Biden's Policy Agenda Rests Heavily on Senate Outcome  —  Which party controls the Senate …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Biden's choice of Ron Klain to run White House signals rejection of Trump-era chaos  —  President-elect Joe Biden has chosen longtime Washington operative Ronald A. Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience …
New York Times:
Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists.  To What End?  —  So far, there is no evidence the appointees harbor a secret agenda or arrived with an action plan.  But their sudden appearance amounts to a purge of the Pentagon's top civilian hierarchy without recent precedent.
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Intercept
Politico:   Ron Klain's possible resurrection
President-Elect Joe Biden:
President-elect Joe Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
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Russell Mills / 102.3 KRMG:
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects  —  The Oklahoma Senator says Friday becomes the next important date, as the GSA can then start certifying the states' results  —  TULSA — Twin crises continue to create confusion for people across the country …
Washington Post:
In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting  —  Inside Detroit's absentee-ballot-counting center, one Republican poll watcher complained that workers were wearing Black Lives Matter gear.  She thought one of them — a “man of intimidating size” — had followed her too closely.
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Jon Ward / Yahoo News:   Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on ‘extraordinary failure to understand how elections function’
Leon Wolf / TheBlaze:   The Trump campaign has released 234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voting regularities in Michigan. Here's what they say.
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Trump's Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company  —  Denying defeat, claiming fraud and using government machinery to reverse election results are the time-honored tools of dictators.  —  MOSCOW — When the strongman ruler of Belarus declared an implausible landslide victory …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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New York Times:   For Pence, the Future Is Tied to Trump as Much as the Present Is
David Thomas / Reuters:
Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results  —  The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Glenna Milberg / WPLG-TV:
Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money  —  MIAMI - Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?  —  Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three …
Wall Street Journal:
What Is Trump's Legal Strategy?  Try to Block Certification of Biden Victory in States.  —  Effort to get state Republicans to appoint pro-Trump Electoral College votes is a long shot, president's advisers and election-law experts say  —  President Trump's campaign is pursuing a patchwork …
President-Elect Joe Biden:
Readout of the President-elect's Foreign Leader Calls  —  President-elect Joe Biden took part in separate congratulatory calls this evening with the leaders of Australia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.  —  The President-elect spoke with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia.
Discussion: NPR
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New York Times:
Biden speaks with more world leaders and agrees to meet South Korea's president.
Discussion: The National Interest
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump endorses McDaniel to remain RNC chair, ponders 2024 run  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to stay on in her position, in what one source said could be a prelude to Trump's announcing plans to run for president in 2024.
Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
What a Biden-Harris administration should prioritize on its first day  —  Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.  —  As Democrats celebrate the election of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, we need to have an important conversation …
Discussion: ABC News, Fox News and NBC News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
No, the ‘Hail Mary’ plan for Trump isn't going to work  —  By now, it has become overwhelmingly obvious that President Trump will lose most or all his court battles over the phantom voter fraud he's alleging.  But there's still a scenario for Trump that is rattling around the Internet, one that's widely called a “Hail Mary.”
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Of course Republicans are doing this. It's who they are.
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Trump's National Security Adviser Tells Staff: Don't Even Mention Biden's Name  —  No one around Trump is willing to tell him he lost the election.  Into the “fucking clown show” stepped Robert O'Brien.  —  President Donald Trump continues to refuse to cede the election.
Discussion: Raw Story, SpyTalk and Defense One
New York Times:
New York City Must Hit Pause on Indoor Dining  —  City and state officials, with an eye toward keeping schools open, should not wait to impose additional lifesaving restrictions.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
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New York Times:
How N.Y.C.'s Conservative Bastion Became a Virus Hot Spot
Discussion: National Review
Will Feuer / CNBC:
Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy  — Dr. Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, said a nationwide lockdown would help bring the virus under control in the U.S.  — He said the government …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Civil war brewing inside Proud Boys as top leader says he's done pretending he isn't a Nazi  —  The far-right Proud Boys gang has long denied that it is a white nationalist organization and has instead claimed that it only exists to defend “Western Civilization.”
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:   Proud Boys Infighting Sees Leading Member Form Breakaway Group to Fight ‘White Genocide’
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Divisive Pentagon hire may rush troop withdrawals before Trump's exit  —  President Trump's newly installed acting Pentagon chief is bringing on a senior adviser in a sign the administration wants to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East before the end …
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Politico:
Trump's new Pentagon sets up clash over Afghanistan pullout
Discussion: The Mahablog
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Completely Insane Electoral College Strategy  —  Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option?  —  President Donald Trump is challenging the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election in several razor-thin battleground states, pushing for recounts …
The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker to Jeffrey Toobin: Beat It!  —  The top writer had been suspended last month after exposing himself during a video call with colleagues.  —  The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after a weeks-long investigation into an incident in which he exposed himself during a video call with colleagues last month.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump eyes digital media empire to take on Fox News  —  President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.  —  The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News …
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Azerbaijan's drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed future of warfare  —  MOSCOW — The drone's-eye view over Nagorno-Karabakh defined much of the six-week war in the mountainous enclave within Azerbaijan: The video first showed soldiers below in trenches, then came blasts and smoke, then nothing.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Misinformation by a thousand cuts: Varied rigged election claims circulate  —  For Trump supporters intent on finding it, proof of the president's claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” is everywhere.  —  For some, it's in the videos: the one in which a Colorado man claiming to be a poll worker …
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Amid White House COVID-19 outbreak, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pulled their 3 kids from a DC Jewish school  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak …
John R. Bolton / Washington Post:
Time is running out for Trump — and Republicans who coddle him  —  John R. Bolton served as national security adviser under President Trump and is the author of “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.”  —  As of this writing, the Republican Party has not suffered permanent damage …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Grants Waivers to Lobbyists to Serve On Transition  —  At least 40 people serving on President-elect Joe Biden's transition team are or were once registered lobbyists, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.  —  The Biden transition team has sought to limit the influence …
 
 
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CNN:
Trump puts his bottom line before the country. And the GOP is helping him do it.
Jamie BallardData Journalist / YouGov:
Black Americans believe activism is uniting the country, but white Americans don't agree
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
McMaster warns Biden on Iran deal: Don't resurrect ‘political disaster masquerading as diplomatic triumph’
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
‘A Loss Is A Loss’: Democratic Senators Frustrated After Party Falls Short
Discussion: HotAir
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
Fox's Contempt for Trump Supporters Exposed in Off-Air Video
Discussion: The Hill and Power Line
CNN:
To my family who chose Trump over me: Was it worth it?